[Update] How To Resolve Samsung Brick Phone By Flashing Custom Rom Via Odin
You should have access to the phone You want to Fix i.e; Must be rooted phone.After rooting with Kingo or any of the various apps available for rooting Android.
Your smart Samsung device may pass the following "symptoms":
Device status will become "Custom/Modified", instead of "Official";
Go to Settings >
About device >
Status >
Device Status >
Custom Boot into download mode after that You find out system status is Custom
"Cannot receive OTA update".
Its may seems wonder to You on How to restore phone status from "Custom/Modified" to "official"?
Receiving OTA update after rooting?
We can considered the below method as one direct and most effective solution for both -i.e; how to flash the Stock/Official ROM (original firmware) via specific tools.
In This blog post You can also be learning how to.
Restore your firmware when your device is soft-bricked;
Here in this event, you think your stock ROM is faulty;
Flash back to a previous version on your Samsung device.
Note:SAMSUNG AND SAMSUNG ONLY. THIS guilds are mostly used,so NO GUARANTEE ON ANYTHING. Doing it is at Your own risk.
CAUTIONS:
Flashing stock Rom using Odin will wipe all Your datas,so to avoid any incoveniencies I advince You make a copy of Your datas
Flash Samsung Stock ROM (Official/Original Firmware) using Odin.
FIRST GUILD:
Download and install device driver software on your computer.
If you have used Kingo android Root already, skip this step. Otherwise,Following some ways how to configure manually.
Visit Samsung official website to find the correspondent driver software.
Google the driver software of your device. Download and then install it on your system You want to use in performing the operation.
Download or update "Kies", part of which will install or update drivers.
Once drivers are installed or updated, it is highly recommended that you restart your computer.(must!)
SECOND GUILD:
Download and extract the Stock ROM (Official/Original Firmware).
SamMobilemay be the best choice to download stock firmware of Samsung device. Or you can go to Samsung Updates, XDA Forum or Google to find the correspondent firmware of your device.Samung Stock Firmware Download on SamMobile
Click "Firmware" and enter your device model
GT-I8552 Stock Firmware Download on SamMobile
Select country or type in certain info to filter, eg.Baseband version.
After downloading it (normally a compressed file), you need to extact/unzip it to certain location of your PC. The file types that Odin uses are *.bin,*.tar and *.tar.md5.
GT-I8552 Stock firmware downloaded from SamMobile
Find the file you have downloaded and then unzip it to Desktop.
Unzip GT-I8552 Stock firmware downloaded from SamMobile
You will find a *.md5 file after extracting.
THIRD GUILD:
Google search using this keywords"DODIN DOWNLOAD", download and extract Odin on Your system.
You can download Odin V3.10.7. After downloading it in Your System, extract it to Desktop or another location you'd prefer.Odin v3.10.7 downloaded from SamMobile
Odin v3.10.7 zip file.
After extracting, right-click to "Open as Administrator". It may prevent certain issue from happening.
Run Odin v3.10.7 as adminitrator
Run Odin as administartor is recommended.
FORTH GUILD:
Boot your Samsung device into Download mode.
Follow these steps to enter Download Mode/Odin Mode
Power off your device
Press and hold Volume Down key, Home Key andPower Key
When your device vibrates, release Power key while keep holding the Volume Down key and Home key
Boot into download mode
Warning before entering into download mode
Press Volume Up key to enter Download mode, which has a green robot figure and “Downloading… Do not turn off target!!)
Boot into download mode
Now you are in download mode.
FIFTH GUILD:
Connect your device to PC.
You device should be automatically recognized by Odin. At the lower-left of Odin interface, it should show a message that says "Added!" and in the meantime you should see a light-blue box at the ID:COM section stating "COM:3" (the number depend on which USB port you have plugged the device cable and is irrelevant).
Connect device to Odin
Device is connected to Odin.
SIXTH GUILD:
Click "AP" or "PDA" to add tar.md5 file that you have extracted and then "Start".
Whether it is "PDA" or "AP" depends on the version of Odin that you used. But the md5 file goes to either "PDA" or "AP".
Add md5 file to Odin
Add *.md5 to Odin.
After adding the file, click "Start" to begin the flashing process.
Click start to flash stock rom
Click "Start" to flash.
CAUTION:
DO NOT OPERATE NOR REMOVE WHILE DOING THIS GUILDS UNTIL FINISHED OR SHOW FAILED ON ODIN INTERFACE.
Starts to flash Your SAMSUNG stock rom using ODIN.
Do not remove your device.
When the flashing process is done and if everything goes well, you should see a big green box saying "RESET" or "PASSED" (depends on the version of Odin is used). By now, the device should be rebooted and it is safe to remove/unplug your device.
Succeed to flash stock rom via Odin
Flash succeeded.
If failed, what should you do?
Try these things first:
Update your device driver software to the latest.
Restart your computer.
Run Odin as Administrator.
Try different cable (original one or the one with better quality) and USB port (the main port recommended)
Re-download the firmware file, make sure it is well placed and match your device model
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That is all You need to "Samaung Brick Phone By Flashing Custom Rom Via Odin" using ODIN.